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Neck injury forces Chen to call quits

Five-time Chinese Olympic gold medal-winning diver Chen Ruolin has been forced to retire at the age of 23 due to a problematic neck injury, the country’s diving team manager Zhou Jihong has said....

October 20, 2016, Thursday

Wu honored with local lifetime achievement award

Shanghai diver Wu Minxia was awarded the Magnolia Lifetime Achievement Award In Sports by the city government yesterday for her contribution to the pool sport in a career spanning 18 years....

September 3, 2016, Saturday

Chen caps golden Games for China

Chen Aisen capped a golden Olympics for China in diving on Saturday winning the men’s 10 meter platform for his country’s seventh gold in eight events on the final day of competition. The 20-year-old, ...

August 22, 2016, Monday

Golden Ren follows in Fu footsteps

Fifteen-year-old schoolgirl Ren Qian followed in the footsteps of Chinese diving great Fu Mingxia when she became the youngest medalist of the Rio Games with her 10-meter platform gold on Thursday....

August 20, 2016, Saturday

Cao shrugs off pressure to capture gold

Cao Yuan shook off the pressure of being the only Chinese diver left in the field — a rarity in Olympic finals — to deliver China’s fifth diving gold medal on Tuesday....

August 18, 2016, Thursday

Winds help knock out He

STRONG winds wobbled and shook up the routines of the male divers competing in the individual 3-meter springboard event on Monday, leaving many with sub-50 point dives and even knocking world champion ...

August 17, 2016, Wednesday

China's world champ He Chao fails to make men's 3m springboard semis

KAZAN Worlds champion diver He Chao of China failed to make the men's 3m springboard semis at the Rio Olympics here on Monday. He, who made mistakes in his second and third dives, collected 380.35 points ...

August 16, 2016, Tuesday

Green-water mystery as Chen ties mark

CHEN Ruolin shrugged off an inexplicably green Rio diving pool to tie teammate Wu Minxia’s two-day-old record of five career diving gold medals on Tuesday. China’s divers stayed unbeaten at the Olympics ...

August 11, 2016, Thursday

Chen, Lin maintain gold rush

CHEN Aisen and Lin Yue won the men’s 10-meter synchronized Olympic diving competition on Monday to keep the powerhouse Chinese squad on course for a potential first-ever gold-medal sweep in Rio. Chen ...

August 10, 2016, Wednesday

China wins second diving gold medal of Rio Games

LIN Yue and Chen Aisen secured China's second diving gold medal at the Rio Olympics on Monday by winning the men's synchronized 10m platform. Lin and Chen posted an overall score of 496.98 points, to ...

August 9, 2016, Tuesday